The Champions! (at least in our minds)

So just a few shots from our recent

badmitton experience. Sorry our camera's action ability stinks! However, we were delighted to find that our gymnasium has an entire (large) room dedicated to badmitton, and another large room dedicated to ping pong. You can come to the gym and rent out equipment quite cheaply and play all day. We came and played for several hours with some Chinese friends (not our students) and generally held our own. We both love badmitton and ping pong, so we came to the right place. Since then, we've had several invitations to go back, which we hope we will have time to accept. We have noticed the Chinese, at least in our college area, are SO much more active than Americans. The students are always outside, walking, playing basketball, doing something. The older people are often walking or at 8 am each morning a group of maybe 15 old women are outside are apartment brandishing their swords with tai chi.

In other news, we had a FANASTIC thanksgiving here with a group of foreigners we spend a lot of time with. They were kind to invite us into their group. We had everything from stuffing, turkey, green beans, and mash potatoes- even to refried bean dip! However, unlike thanksgiving, there were no leftovers. Food like this is precious and extremely expensive so it was all promptly demolished. I hope we can include some pictures, but we forgot our camera so we'll have to ask someone to send it. In usual Lisa style, I burnt my hand that morning making chocolate chip cookies. They still tasted good though:)